Background
Hamilton, Guy was born on September 24, 1922 in Paris. Son of Frederick Guy and Vera (Campbell) Hamilton.
Hamilton, Guy was born on September 24, 1922 in Paris. Son of Frederick Guy and Vera (Campbell) Hamilton.
Graduated from Haileybury College, United Kingdom.
He spent his youth in France and, after a period at the Victorine studio in Nice, he came to England in 1940, joining British Paramount News.
He served in the navy and after the war became an assistant director: They Made Me a Fugitive (47, Alberto Cavalcanti); Mine Own Executioner (47, Anthony Kimmins); Anna Karenina (48, Julien Duvivier); The Fallen Idol (48, Carol Reed); The Third Man (49, Reed); Outcast of the Islands (51, Reed); and The African Queen (52, John Huston).
Briefly, it seemed that Hamilton might have an urbane talent. Although a failure, Manuela was a more penetrating view of sexual attraction than the British cinema usually allowed, and A Touch of Larceny was moderately funny. But events have revealed Hamilton as no more than a fluctuating technician, sometimes capable of anonymous economy and a shallow, cynical wit—Goldfinger, Funeral in Berlin, and Diamonds Are Forever— but elsewhere, barely competent: The Battle of Britain and The Devil’s Disciple, which he took over at short notice from Alexander Maekendrick.
Lieutenant Royal Navy, 1940-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Member Garrick Club (London).
Married Yvette Kerima, August 20, 1966.